Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...
...agreement of some Southeast Asian nations for a collective pact against Communist aggression. This idea was generated as a reaction to the Indo-China collapse. But the defects of any possible Asian pact advertise the weakness of the anti-Communist position more than its strength (see FOREIGN NEWS). India, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia will not go to Manila. South Korea and the Chinese National ists of Formosa, which have thoroughly anti-Communist governments and fighting forces, cannot be invited to Manila because the British would consider their presence "provocative...
While U.S. military men talked about plans for a new main line of defense in Thailand, U.S. diplomats were conferring in a dozen capitals on the terms of the long-contemplated Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Britain, meanwhile, began consultations with the Colombo powers (India, Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan and Ceylon) in the dubious hope of inducing them to join the SEATO conferees...
...Southeast Asia. Its guarantees would probably include the protection of Laos, Cambodia and South Viet Nam, although these countries, with their freedom restricted by the Geneva agreement, might not be able to join SEATO. Probable signatories: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines, possibly Burma and Ceylon. Likely conference site: Baguio, the Philippines' mountainside summer capital. Probable date of the conference: early September. The meeting will be brief, allowing enough time for the foreign ministers to hurry to New York for another fight against Communist infiltration, at the convening of the ninth General Assembly...
...blood-bank program in war-torn Korea. It sent a young Pakistani to make friends in Washington's Yakima Valley. It is sponsoring an international network of radio hams. Its magazines had kept Rotarians in Kenya, Viet Nam and Trieste posted on the activities of their fellows in Ceylon, Wichita and Sioux City...